GENESEO, N.Y. — Peter Phillips, the director of
Project Censored, will speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, in the MacVittie
College Union Ballroom at the State University of New York at Geneseo. The talk
is free and open to the public. The title of his talk is "New American
Censorship."

Phillips, chair of the sociology
department at Sonoma State University, teaches classes in media censorship,
sociology of power, political sociology and sociology of media. He has
published eight editions of "Censored: Media Democracy in Action" from Seven
Stories Press, and in 2003 published "Project Censored Guide to Independent
Media and Activism." He also is the national and international news editor for
the North Bay Progressive newspaper in
Santa Rosa, Calif.

Phillips writes op-ed pieces for
national independent media including "Z" magazine, "Counterpunch," "Common
Dreams," "Social Policy" and "Briarpatch." He frequently speaks on media
censorship and various socio-political issues on radio and TV talks shows
including "Talk of the Nation," "Air America," "Public Interest," "Talk
America," "World Radio Network," "Democracy Now!" and the "Jim Hightower Show."

He received his B.A. in social
science in 1970 from Santa Clara University and his M.A. in social science from
California State University at Sacramento in 1974. He earned a second M.A. in
sociology in 1991 and a Ph.D. in sociology in 1994. His doctoral dissertation
was titled A Relative Advantage: Sociology of the San Francisco Bohemian
Club.

Project Censored is a media research group out of Sonoma
State University which tracks the news published in independent journals and
newsletters. From these, Project Censored compiles an annual list of 25 news
stories of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported or
self-censored by the country's major national news media. More information can
be found at www.projectcensored.org.

A fifth generation Californian,
Phillips grew up on a family-owned farm west of the Central Valley town of
Lodi. Today, he lives in rural Sonoma County with his wife Mary Lia-Phillips.

His talk is sponsored by the Activities Commission's
Contemporary Forum. For more information, contact Christy Panagakis at
clp5@geneseo.edu or (585) 245-5876.